12-Year-Old Trans Boy Gets New Birth Certificate in Canada

Wren Kauffman, a 12-year-old in Alberta, Canada, has been awarded a new birth certificate recognizing him as a boy at a pride brunch with the mayor of Edmonton. Kauffman was born with a female body but always identified as a boy, according to Jezebel.

At the time when his family began campaigning for the birth certificate, Alberta's policy was that a resident needed to have SRS (sex reassignment surgery) in order to qualify. Similar complaints were filed in three other provinces of Canada, and Ontario already has dropped their policy.

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It's great that cisgender people are beginning to recognize that SRS surgery doesn't define a transgender person's identity and have been progressively shifting it from the forefront of their preoccupation with trans individuals. This is absolutely partially thanks to Orange Is the New Black's Laverne Cox shutting down Katie Couric's nosy surgery questions and explaining why they're inappropriate.